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- Centaurus Metals (CTM) receives more high-grade results from drilling at its Jaguar Nickel Sulphide Project in Brazil
- The 65,000-metre drilling effort is targeting four deposits within the project to upgrade and expand its current resource
- Pleasingly, results across all deposits return encouraging grades and widths which highlights the potential to expand Jaguar’s mineral resource
- Three more diamond rigs will arrive over the coming weeks to accelerate the 2021 drilling program
- Company shares are down 2.14 per cent to trade at 68.5 cents
Centaurus Metals (CTM) has announced more high-grade results from drilling at its Jaguar Nickel Sulphide Project in northern Brazil.
The new results come from the Jaguar Central, Jaguar West, Jaguar Central North and Jaguar South deposits.
Jaguar Central
Jaguar Central is the second biggest deposit of the project and has a mineral resource of 10.2 million tonnes at one per cent nickel for more than 100,000 tonnes of contained nickel.
The latest assays from step-out drilling at this deposit returned multiple thick high-grade nickel sulphide intersections which highlight the potential to grow the current resource.
Results include 64.9 metres at 1.07 per cent nickel and 2.1 per cent zinc from 216.5 metres including 17.7 metres at 1.62 per cent nickel and 4.39 per cent zinc from 246.3 metres.
Jaguar Central North
The Jaguar Central North deposit is situated between Jaguar Central and Jaguar North and contributes an inferred resource of 5.8 million tonnes at 0.8 per cent nickel for over 45,000 tonnes.
Centaurus only began drilling this area in the first quarter of this year to infill and lift the resource into the indicated category.
Latest results include 19.7 metres at 0.85 per cent nickel and 1.4 per cent zinc from 86.4 metres including 4.4 metres at 1.28 per cent nickel and 2.02 per cent zinc from 97.8 metres.
Once this deposit’s resource is converted to the indicated category, drilling will focus on resource growth.
Jaguar West
The Jaguar West deposit hosts an inferred resource of 5.7 million tonnes at 0.8 per cent nickel for over 45,000 tonnes.
Drilling at the area has proven successful in confirming the current geological model and identifying more higher-grade zones within the broader mineralised envelope.
Results include 12.5 metres at 1.38 per cent nickel, 0.06 per cent zinc, 0.06 per cent copper and 0.03 per cent cobalt from 33 metres including four metres at 3.60 per cent nickel, 0.03 per cent zinc, 0.17 per cent copper and 0.08 per cent cobalt from 40.4 metres.
Once infill drilling is complete, Centaurus Metals will move to step-out and extensional drilling to build the resource.
Jaguar South
The Jaguar South deposit is the largest deposit at the project and hosts a resource of 18.7 million tonnes at 0.97 per cent nickel for over 180,000 tonnes.
Latest results include 12.6 metres at 1.38 per cent nickel from 120.5 metres including 6.3 metres at 2.3 per cent nickel from 126.8 metres and 6.5 metres at 2.18 per cent nickel from 161.5 metres including three metres at 3.53 per cent nickel from 162 metres.
One rig is focused on infill and step-out drilling at this deposit to continue testing potential down-dip extensions of the high-grade mineralisation.
“We have over 65,000 metres of drilling planned at Jaguar by the end of this year aimed at both upgrading and expanding the already impressive globally significant resource base of 58.9 million tonnes at 0.96 per cent nickel for 562,600 tonnes of contained nickel,” Managing Director Darren Gordon said.
“With the arrival of three additional diamond rigs over the coming weeks, we will ramp-up our step-out drilling program and push even harder to expand the resource inventory,” Mr Gordon added.
Company shares were down 2.14 per cent to trade at 68.5 cents at 1:10 pm AEST.
